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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · "New" Elinchrom D-Lite it 4 // B800 or Profoto Compact? | |
CGP4 wrote:
They'll all work, but there's bare bulb and there's bare bulb. The Profoto Compact is like the Pro & Acute heads, in that the tube has a diffusion dome and extends forward a good deal from the body. I find this design spreads light better into the sides of dishes and softboxes (I can measure the difference in my softboxes, haven't tried in a dish). The best, true bare bulb flash heads actually have a hairpin/helical tube that protrudes forward, rather than the flat donut tubes you see in most monolights. While, yes, AB and Elinchrom are bare in the sense that the tubes are exposed, their design (and effectiveness) is different; in fact, I find Elinchrom's integrated reflector behind the tube makes it especially forward biased (but I understand, to mitigate this, Mola has a new mounting bracket to help get Elinchrom tubes farther into the dish).
My answer was for use in a beauty dish; as far as monolights go, in general, I'd take Elinchrom over Profoto anyday!...Show more →
AB/WL/Zeus?Einstein are about the only monolights that have no sub reflector, thus don't forward bias the light output. The have flat back plates and the tube is 1" forward of the backplate, yielding about 220° non focused bare bulb output. This is important with softboxes, PLMs and such.The Einstein dome does amazing things in this regard - providing really good diffusion and integration of the model lamp and flash - particularly effective on high output reflectors to provide smooth patterns free of hot spots, etc.
As for various lights with Vagabond or Tronix, it's a matter of how many lights you attempt to use and at what voltage they crash.
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